Apparently Amazon are doing a Black Friday (Friday after Thanksgiving for non US peeps.) discount.
Check you prices some forums say they are little better than normal Amazon prices some say better. Remember the US to AUS conversion is bad at the moment.
anyone know of good aussie competitors to amazon?
Not really - I recently bought 4 small business books and did a comparison with about 5 local online bookstores from Oz before I purchased. Amazon came up to around $80 AUD including shipping, while the rest were over $120*** AUD - even with the lousy exchange rate.
Plus, one of the hardcover books was defective (pages not trimmed properly) - so I lodged a replacement request online, and about an hour later, they emailed me back saying that they'll post a replacement book out to me using express shipping. And because they said that shipping back to them would be prohibitively expensive, I didn't have to post it back to them. Lo and behold, about 3 or 4 days later, the replacement book turned up. So now, I've got 2 copies of the book (albeit, one damaged one) so I gave to my brother.
A very happy Amazon customer here! :D
*** I should add though that one of the Oz bookstores (can't remember which one - I found via google) said that they would match whatever price Amazon came up with. I couldn't be bothered though so I just went with Amazon (I'm glad I did though) :D
That would be Fishpond. However from some comments somewhere that Fishpond would only price match the cost of book + postage of individual books. So with combined shipping from Amazon it would still turn out cheaper.
US to AUS conversion = bad = not quite a bargain.
but okay.